The Spirit of Kellogg-Briand

Obama's committee to abolish human evil.

Updated April 27, 2012 12:01 a.m. ET

The occasion was solemn, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Elie Wiesel showed President Obama around the Washington museum that memorializes Jewish victims of the Nazis. In his speech on Monday, the President repeatedly invoked the phrase "never again." Then he touted the Administration's newest weapon against genocide: the Atrocities Prevention Board.

This is not an item from the Onion. A new permanent "interagency" committee that gathered for the first time Monday is now America's first line of response to...